Case file 041Culture & Legends
The Priestess of Death
A painted coffin lid in the British Museum was blamed for deaths, ruin and even the Titanic, though its curse was largely made up in London drawing rooms.
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Victorian London
Case file 038The Unexplained
The Leaping Terror of London
Tales of a leaping figure who breathed blue flames spread across Victorian London, and an aristocrat was blamed for the terror.
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Case file 028Crime & Mystery
Black Magic in Whitechapel
An occult writer claimed to have decoded the Whitechapel murders as black magic, and later writers named him as the Ripper himself.
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